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Testing AMD's New FirePro Linux Driver

03-23-2010, 01:00 AM

Phoronix: Testing AMD's New FirePro Linux Driver

Earlier this month AMD rolled out a new workstation graphics card driver, which is effectively the same Catalyst driver used by the consumer-oriented Radeon graphics cards but with greater testing and certification for the ATI workstation offerings. The press release announcing this new driver was titled "Application Performance Increases By Up To 20 Percent with Latest ATI FirePro Graphics Driver," so we decided to see if this proprietary driver really lives up to its claims under Linux.

Nice improvements but there is one problem SPECViewPerf 10 for benching unfortunately and that is that almost none of it's tests are relevant in linux anymore.

Pro/E and CATIA are no longer supported in linux in there newest versions and Solidworks, 3DSMax, and VisMockup never have made it to linux. I'd be more interested to see the performance improvements on linux applications such as Maya, etc.

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Nice improvements but there is one problem SPECViewPerf 10 for benching unfortunately and that is that almost none of it's tests are relevant in linux anymore.

Pro/E and CATIA are no longer supported in linux in there newest versions and Solidworks, 3DSMax, and VisMockup never have made it to linux. I'd be more interested to see the performance improvements on linux applications such as Maya, etc.

These were my first thoughts too. Why don't benchmark something that has a native linux version e.g. one of Ansys' products. You might want to pick IcemCFD or the Designmodeler (afaik it has been recently released to *nix).

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These were my first thoughts too. Why don't benchmark something that has a native linux version e.g. one of Ansys' products. You might want to pick IcemCFD or the Designmodeler (afaik it has been recently released to *nix).